The most important change is use of the official long term 3.12.y (3.12.36) kernel to offer more stable operation over experimental kernels and to get wider range of hardware supported, specially the audio devices.

fltk library has been updated to 1.3.3 to enable unicode. fltk-1.1 and 1.3 can be installed at the same time, and old apps using 1.1 will continue to work.

Size of SD card images reduced.

Boots in safe overclocking mode to shorten boot time by 20% with performance governor; switch to ondemand when startup finished.

Images with preinstalled SSH for headless operation and with GUI also available.

Updating previous versions on Raspberry Pi without removing SD card

Download piCore-6.0-boot.tar.gz extract to a temporary folder and overwrite content of /mnt/mmcblk0p1 after mounting it. It will overwrite custom boot options. If you have customised cmdline.txt on config.txt in the old system, do it again. Do not reboot if using wireless remote connection, otherwise you will loose connection due to incompatible kernel modules!

Next download kernel module tcz's from the repo matching new kernel version and reboot. You must have a new, updated system working.

Please note, there may be kernel module extensions which are not yet available in the repo.

Before modifying mmcblk01 content, it is adviced to make backup to a persistent device.

Tried it out just now and the wifi works good. Downloaded go.tcz and compile-essentials like a greased lightning. Saw the dejavu fonts in the repo so I downloaded them too. Will try to figure out how to make them the default font since the default isn't so clearly visible watching a 32 inch monitor (a TV in other words). Very well done!!!

I'm compiling the updated GO 1.4.1 sources now on piCore 6.0 and with the default font it's hard to read the tiny fonts in the terminal. Since I'm maintaining various computers and installations all from Win 8.1 to Plan 9 OS it's kind of hard to keep track of the configuring options (I'm also very easily distracted and have always been). I would be very grateful if you (or someone else) could help me to change the font to a bigger and more readable on my screen in the terminal. Thanks beforehand!

Just a notation about a test with swap. Had (as mentioned before) formatted a 16 GB USB memory as swap and turned it on (swapon /dev etc.) but while compiling the GO sources only 52 MB was used. It was at least not notably faster as I imagined. Curious, wonder why?

Greetings,meo

CORRECTION: During the test cycle at the end of the compilation it's using c:a 130 MB of swap.

Regarding SWAP again. The usage of swap went up to 158 MB tops during the ubiquitous test cycle compiling GO from source. At that point the RAM usage had dropped from like 400 MB to 220 MB so the OS was more responsive but the usage of memory (RAM only; or RAM + SWAP) didn't vary much. After finishing it took a long time to clear the RAM and that puzzles me since it in TC x86 clears almost immediately. If someone has some thoughts about this I would love to hear it. Having a bigger SWAP (16 GB) made the OS pretty responsive but it only used 1 % of the SWAP at most.